“A staggering first novel....mesmerizing;
extraordinary; phenomenal. None of these
do this book justice. It’s a real triumph by a
great talent.”—Darin Strauss. “A gorgeously
atmospheric novel about art, love and obsession that evokes North Brooklyn in all its
gritty, workaday, do-it-yourself glamour. Jarvis
Miller is a heroine for the oughts: passionate,
independent, sexy, lonely and brave.”—Kate
Christensen, author of In the Drink.
Riverhead 304pp. 978-1-59448-952-5 $24.95

Ken Kesey

f ONE FLEW OVER THE CUCKOO’S NEST
New Foreword by Chuck Palahniuk

Introduction by Robert Faggen

Cover by Joe Sacco

“A glittering parable of good and evil.”—The
New York Times Book Review. “A roar of protest
against middlebrow society’s Rules and the
Rulers who enforce them.”— Time. Preface and
line drawings by Kesey. Deluxe edition with
French flaps.

Penguin Classics 320pp. 978-0-14-310502-2 $15.00

Chris Abani
THE VIRGIN OF FLAMES
“Abani’s intense visual style—and his sense of
humor—convert the stuff of hopelessness into
the stuff of hope.”—San Francisco Chronicle.
This novel set against the uncompromising
landscape of East L.A. raises essential questions about poverty, religion, and ethnicity in
America today.
Penguin 304pp. 978-0-14-303877-1 $14.00

Robert Alexander
RASPUTIN’S DAUGHTER
“A satisfying portrait of a court in its last
throes of decadence and intrigue.”—The
Washington Post. “An engaging historical
fiction that offers a Rasputin who is neither
beast nor saint, but merely, compellingly
human.”—Publishers Weekly.
Penguin 320pp. 978-0-14-303865-8 $14.00
An ALA Best Books for Young Adults
Also in Penguin: The Kitchen Boy 978-0-14-200381-7

Paul Auster

THE INVENTION OF SOLITUDE
25th Anniversary Edition
New Introduction by Pascal Bruckner
“Moving, delicately perceived portraits of
lives and relationships.”— The New York Times
Book Review. “Auster’s memoir combine’s the
subjects of time, language, and family into a
beautifully moving and intelligent mosaic.”
—Charles Baxter.
Penguin 192pp. 978-0-14-311222-8 $14.00

Introduction by Robert Faggen

Penguin Classics 312pp. 978-0-14-118122-6 $14.00

THE NEW YORK TRILOGY
City of Glass, Ghosts, The Locked Room
Introduction by Luc Sante
Cover art by Art Spiegelman
“Twists, turns, and falls back on itself like a literary Mobius strip.”—San Francisco Examiner.
Deluxe Edition with French flaps.
Penguin Classics 320pp. 978-0-14-303983-9 $16.00
Also in Penguin paperback: 978-0-14-013155-0

An Epic Fantasy of the Ancient World
Part Genesis, part Gilgamesh, this artfully
wrought first novel is a triumph of the historical fantasy genre.

Overlook 432pp. 978-1-58567-916-4 $25.95

KESEY’S JAIL JOURNAL
Introduction by Ed McClanahan
While serving time in the sixties for pot possession, the influential writer recorded the
experience in numerous notebooks, illustrated
with intense and brilliantly colored artwork.
Turned into a collage upon his release, Kesey’s
work is at last presented in a long-overdue volume.
Viking 144pp. 978-0-670-87693-8 $34.95

Dorothy Allison

BASTARD OUT OF CAROLINA
“Allison can make an ordinary moment transcendent with her sensuous mix of kitchen-sink
realism and down-home drawl.”—San Francisco
Chronicle.
Plume 320pp. 978-0-452-28705-1 $15.95
Nominated for the National Book Award

THE MUSIC OF CHANCE
“An exceptional novel of freedom and chance
which takes you on an engrossing tour of a man’s
inner life.”—Los Angeles Times Book Review.
Penguin 224pp. 978-0-14-015407-8 $14.00
Also in Penguin: In the Country of Last Things 978-0-
14-009705-4, Leviathan 978-0-14-017813-5, Moon Palace
978-0-14-011585-7, City of Glass 978-0-14-009731-3

SOMETIMES A GREAT NOTION
New Introduction by Charles Bowden
“A contemporary classic.”—Chicago Tribune.
“One of the few essential books written by an
American in the last half century.”—Charles
Bowden.
Penguin Classics 736pp. 978-0-14-303986-0 $16.00
Also in Penguin: Demon Box 978-0-14-008530-3, Last
Go Round 978-0-14-017667-4

TWO OR THREE THINGS
I KNOW FOR SURE
“Elegant and raw, as fine and delicate as a
tear, as hard and unyielding as a diamond.”
—The Boston Globe.
Plume 96pp. 978-0-452-27340-5 $12.00
Lambda Literary Award Finalist
Also in Plume: Cavedweller 978-0-452-27969-8, Trash
978-0-452-28351-0

Ellis Avery

f THE TEAHOUSE FIRE

“Avery’s writing is saturated with color and
detail; she manages to make 19th-century
Japan both accessible and exotic, infusing her
story with a sense of dignified calm.”— The
Boston Globe. “Vivid and engrossing....Provides
true pleasure to the intellect and all the senses.”—Los Angeles Times Book Review.
Riverhead 480pp. 978-1-59448-273-1 $15.00

“Entirely original, dizzyingly controlled, all
ice-cool momentum on the surface and all
shock below.”—Joan Didion. This portrait of a
wealthy Westside, Los Angeles, family boldly
dramatizes the disfunctionality of the modern
American family.

Overlook 256pp. 978-1-58567-999-7 $23.95
Available March 2008

Trudy Baker and Rachel Jones, with Donald Bain
COFFEE, TEA OR ME?
The Uninhibited Memoirs
of Two Airline Stewardesses
This 1960s pulp classic is a First Class jet-age
journal, offering a trove of anecdotes from the
high-flying lives of those adventurous young
women known as “stews.”
Penguin 320pp. 978-0-14-200351-0 $15.00

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